How can I use bpy as a module in an IDE?
The blender as a module build is not officially supported which means the blender foundation won't make it available as part of the normal blender releases, which means compiling blender yourself is currently the only way to get a copy of blender as a module.

Graphicall.org is a site that makes custom builds of development and experimental versions of blender available. It could be worth commenting on one of the builds for your system to see if the builder might be persuaded to make a module build available.